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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

A tribe inhabiting SCYTHIA along the HYPANIS RIVER north of the Greek colony of OLBIA, at a point where the TYRAS RIVER flows close by (4.52.4: difficult to reconcile with the modern topography, cf. BA 23 F1). The Alizones, like the CALLIPIDAE to the south, share Scythian customs except that they are farmers rather than NOMADS (4.17.1).

The two major MANUSCRIPTS of the Histories read “Alazones” (Ἀλαζῶνες), but recent editors have printed the variant “Alizones” based on a reference in STRABO (12.3.21/C550; Wilson 2015, 74). But the Strabo passage appears to be corrupt, and Aldo Corcella has argued in detail for “Alazones” (Corcella 1994; see also Corcella in ALC, 588). Pausanias (who writes “Alazones”) notes that they produce the best honey in the world by allowing their bees to range freely (1.32.1; cf. Ael. NA 2.53).

SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Ethnography